Artist Opportunities with Upcoming Deadlines in March and April, 2020
Every month Creative Capital compiles a list of residencies, grants, and exhibition open calls to help artists in all disciplines make new work, and expand their art practice. The opportunities include studio space in Marquette, Nebraska, and a residency in the forested mountains of north Georgia.
Art Farm Residencies
Marquette, Nebraska
Deadline: March 1, 2020
This residency program is for professionals, emerging or established, in all areas of the arts, humanities, and related fields. Accommodations and studio space is offered in exchange for a contribution of labor of 12 hours per week to help renovate and maintain Art Farm’s buildings and grounds as well as other projects, suited to skills and temperament.
Keyholder Residency
New York, New York
Deadline: March 1, 2020
This residency offers emerging artists free 24-hour access to printmaking facilities to develop new work and foster their artistic careers. Artists receive free access to studio space, workshops, basic supplies, a $1,000 stipend, and more.
Artists’ Cooperative Residency & Exhibitions
Southwest Wisconsin
Deadline: March 7, 2020
ACRE’s residency takes place every summer in rural Southwest Wisconsin. The residency facilities include numerous buildings which provide for expansive communal work spaces, a screen-printing studio, an outdoor wood shop, an art and tech facility, a sound studio, a fibers studio and a ceramics studio.
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Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson Residency
Columbus, Ohio
Deadline: March 9, 2020
This 90-day residency in the home of the late Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson is open to U.S. based African American visual artists. In addition to a studio space, recipient will receive a $2,500 unrestricted cash award and a stipend up to $5,500 for travel/living expenses. Community outreach activities are required and artists will have the opportunity for a public presentation and/or exhibition.
Creative Time Emerging Artist Open Call
Deadline EXTENDED: March 23, 2020
The Creative Time Emerging Artist Open Call is a biennial initiative that offers early-career artists based in New York the opportunity to create their first major socially engaged public artwork.
Roswell Artist-in-Residence Program
Deadline: March 15, 2020
Year-long residence grants are offered to professional visual artists 21 years of age or older, involved in painting, drawing, sculpture, printmaking, photography, installation and other fine art media. A stipend of $800 per month is offered along with $100 for a spouse/partner and $200 per child living with the grantee. Grants are not available for performance art or production crafts.
Djerassi Resident Artists Program
Woodside, California
Deadline: March 16, 2020
These six residencies are open to national and international artists, emerging and mid-career, in the disciplines of choreography, literature, music composition, visual arts, media arts, and science.
Cue Art Foundation Open Call for Exhibitions
New York, New York
Deadline: March 18, 2020
Cue Art has two open calls artists and emerging curators the opportunity and necessary resources to realize an exhibition at their storefront gallery in New York City. Artists receive a $5,000 honorarium, while curators receive $2,500.
COOP Gallery Writer’s Residency
Nashville, Tennessee
Deadline: March 21, 2020
This open call is for women across the gender spectrum who are geographically located in the Southeast to apply for their year-long pilot writing residency. Writers will be offered $125 per written piece, and will be asked to contribute writing for exhibitions at the gallery.
International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP) Lenore G. Tawney Residency
Brooklyn, New York
Deadline: March 31, 2020
This three-month residency program is open to visual artists working in or interested in exploring fiber media. The fully-funded residency includes a private, furnished studio, regular studio visits from visiting critics, field trips to cultural venues, participation in artist talks, plus living and materials stipends of approximately $2,680 per month.
Santa Fe Art Institute Revolution Residency
Santa Fe, New Mexico
Deadline: April 1, 2020
This residency will support research, artworks, and creative actions that use artistic imagination to provide sites of resistance, instances of engagement, and solidarity with transformational movements. The residency comes with living and studio space, and more.
The Watermill Center Artist Residency Program
Water Mill, New York
Deadline: April 3, 2020
The Watermill Center is an interdisciplinary laboratory for the arts and humanities situated on ten acres of Shinnecock ancestral territory on Long Island’s East End. Artists-in-Residence who participate in this two to six week program receive access to 20,000 square feet of rehearsal/design spaces and outdoor stages, a theater production archive (housed in New York City), The Watermill Center Study Library, The Watermill Collection, and The Center’s ten acre landscaped grounds and gardens.
Korea Arts Foundation of America Award
Deadline: April 10, 2020
Artists who are either US citizens of Korean ancestry, or Koreans with permanent residency status in the US are welcome to apply for this award worth $15,000.
Westmoreland Museum of American Art Open Call
Greensburg, Pennsylvania
Deadline: April 10, 2020
Knockdown Center
Maspeth, New York
Deadline: April 12, 2020
Through an open proposal process, the Knockdown Center offer artists, curators, and organizers the freedom to challenge traditional notions of presentation and reception.
Climate in Crisis Residencies at A Studio in the Woods
New Orleans, Louisiana
Deadline: April 13, 2020
These residencies invite artists of all disciplines to examine the severity of the climate crisis and be agents of change to guide our collective understanding, response, and vision. Rising Residencies provide artists with time, space, scholarship and staff support to foster critical thinking and creation of new works, including a $2,500 stipend and $2,000 materials budget.
Bemis Center for Contemporary Artists Residency
Omaha, Nebraska
Deadline: April 15, 2020
National and international artists are welcome to apply to this residency, featuring a generous sized, private live/work studios. Residents will also receive funding for travel, and a $1,000 stipend.
Rabun Gap, Georgia
Hambidge Center Residency
Rabun Gap, Georgia
Deadline: April 15, 2020
This two-eight week residency is the oldest in the Southeast, and is situated on 600 forested acres in the mountains of north Georgia. The program provides professionals in arts & culture administration, ceramics, culinary arts, dance, music, science, visual arts, and writing with a self-directed program to cultivate their talent, whether it’s to work and produce, to think, to experiment or to rejuvenate.
The Steel Yard Residency Program
Providence, Rhode Island
Deadline: April 17, 2020
Open to emerging and mid-level artists working in metals, light metals, ceramics and foundry, this residency provides studio space, tools, and resources for forging, molding, and welding for a month or a year.
Stochastic Labs Summer Residency
Berkeley, California
Deadline: rolling basis
The Stochastic Labs offers fully-sponsored residencies to engineers, artists, scientists, and entrepreneurs from around the world. Residencies include a private apartment at the mansion, co-working and/or dedicated work space, shop access, a $1k monthly stipend and a budget for materials.
Rauschenberg Emergency Grant
Deadline: rolling basis
NYFA and the Rasuchenberg Foundation have teamed up to offer visual and media artists and choreographers in the US grants of up to $5,000 for medical related emergencies.
Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant
Deadline: rolling basis
Do you have an unanticipated opportunity to present your work? Did you incur an unexpected expense that you didn’t budget for? The Foundation for Contemporary Arts offers Emergency Grants between $200 and $2,500 for visual and performing artists. They review applications once a month, so you can quickly take advantage of momentum or solve any budget errors.
Joan Mitchell Emergency Grant
Deadline: rolling basis
The Joan Mitchell Foundation provides grants of up to $6,000 to US-based visual artists who have suffered significant physical losses after natural or man-made disasters.
Gottlieb Emergency Grant Program
Deadline: rolling basis
This emergency grant provides financial assistance to painters, printmakers, and sculptors whose needs are the result of an unforeseen incident, and who lack the resources to meet that situation.
Rhizome Microgrant Program
Deadline: rolling basis
The microgrant program awards $500–$1,500 to proposals with a compelling vision for net art, which considers political radicalization and the internet.
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